Rossano Brazzi
Rossano Brazzi ( born September 18, 1916 in Bologna, † December 24, 1994 in Rome ) was an Italian actor.
Life
Brazzi was born in 1916 in Bologna, the son of a shoemaker and lived with his parents in 1920 Adelmo and Maria Brazzi Ghedini and with his younger brothers Oscar and Franca in Florence, where he later studied at the University of San Marco Jura. When he earned his degree in 1937, his father, who now owned a leather factory sent it to a friend to Rome to gain practical experience as a lawyer. There he was hired because of his good looks from a client for a theater performance. Brazzi finally gave up his actual profession and joined a drama troupe to. As a singer he had already gained some stage experience at a young age.
In 1938, he first appeared in a film together. It was followed by many small roles in Italian films. In 1943, he was that time can also be seen in the German crime film on the side of Zarah Leander and Hans Stüwe. However, until the mid-1950s he joined continue on to the stage.
In 1949 he celebrated his Hollywood debut in Mervyn LeRoy's Little Women ( Little Women ) as a German professor next June Allyson and Elizabeth Taylor. However, his international breakthrough came in 1954 with Jean Negulescos Three Coins in the Fountain ( Three Coins in the Fountain ) and Joseph L. Mankiewicz's The Barefoot Contessa ( The Barefoot Contessa ) next to Ava Gardner and Humphrey Bogart. As so often, he also played in a dream of my life ( Summertime, 1955) an Italian, in the Katharine Hepburn falling in love as a middle-aged woman on her Venice trip.
1966 and 1968, he directed three films as a director, two of them under the pseudonym Edward Ross; However, none was a great success granted. The late 1960s to the mid-1970s he also starred with in a number of films, in which his brother Oscar Brazzi has directed. In 1981 he received a nomination for the Nastro d' Argento Best Supporting Actor in Io e Caterina.
From 1940 Brazzi married baroness Lidia Bertolini with the Italian. The marriage lasted until her death in 1981. 1984 he married the German Ilse Fischer. Both marriages were childless. However Brazzi had an illegitimate son in 1955 from an affair with Llewella Humphreys, daughter of mafioso Murray Humphreys, emerged and the name of George Brady ( Brady Anglicized form of Brazzi ) received.
Rossano Brazzi died on Christmas Eve 1994 at the age of 78 years in Rome on a neural virus. His grave is located in the Cimitero Flaminio in Rome.